Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCXXV: "smoky darkness"
written in response to the commissioner general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini's September 1 2025 statement: Gaza is “becoming the graveyard of international humanitarian law.”
smoky darkness ...
God's name slips further
into it
Reprinted in Triya, Sharad, 2025
Hindi Translation
कालिमा गहराए ...
ईश्वर का नाम भी
उसमें समाए
नेवर एन्डिंग स्टोरी, सितंबर 10, 2025
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCXXVI: "the world(s)"
The World(s)
half awake
to the call of a muezzin ...
in and out
of this cracked window
an Israeli sniper drone
smoky darkness ...
the world
within this hushed silence
and yet is there a world
where no fireballs fly
